Health & Fitness
Robotics and An Open Source Life
Gabriella Levine will be talking hacking, sailing and biomimetic robots when she takes the stage at TEDx Navesink on Sept. 20 at Brookdale.
When Gabriella Levine talks about the concept of open hardware, where individuals share ideas and knowledge to push technological innovation, she need only point to her life as an example.
The COO of the robotics company Protei, and a pioneer in robotics and design, Levine designs modular open hardware toolkits for biomimetic robots, like Sneel, an open source, biomimetic, locomotive, aquatic snake robot. That’s right, a robot water snake. It’s used to collect remote environmental data in harsh environments.
Gabriella found her way to the biomimetic robotic field in a winding way that began with her training as a musician.
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At Cornell University she trained in her dual loves of piano and biology, but followed her passion for science into cancer research. The field was at first exciting and fulfilling, but one day she said, she found herself alone in a lab surrounded by mice and loneliness set in. She craved the collaboration of passionate people and the creative outlet of piano and set out on a journey into kinetic sculpture and robotics, which brought her to her current vocation – creative technologist, a blend of art and design.
On Sept. 20 Levine will share her journey with the audience at TEDx Navesink: The Next Wave, a locally organized TED event. Levine will share her drive to create something people will be able to use, build upon and proliferate through open hardware.
